Crafter.Graphics/examples
catbot 464cb66063 docs(vulkan-rt): record native descriptor-heap AS read as a driver fault
Investigated the VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST on the native VulkanTriangle (#7).
Verified the engine side is correct and validation-clean: the BLAS/TLAS
build finishes before render (FinishInit waits), the built instance is
well-formed (identity transform, mask=0xFF, correct BLAS ref), and
vkWriteResourceDescriptorsEXT stores the TLAS device address at the
expected heap offset (confirmed by dumping the heap bytes). Khronos
validation 1.4.350 reports zero errors.

The fault is isolated to reading the acceleration structure through
VK_EXT_descriptor_heap:
- images/buffers via the same heap render fine (trace disabled -> the
  raygen imageStore path renders a full gradient);
- both traceRayEXT and inline rayQueryEXT (no SBT) fault identically on
  the AS read;
- reproduces with the AS descriptor at heap byte 0 / shader index 0 (no
  offset/stride ambiguity) and regardless of pAddressRange size.

NVIDIA 610.43.02 is the only descriptor_heap implementation available
(llvmpipe lacks the extension), so there is no second implementation to
cross-check. Conclusion: driver-side fault in NVIDIA's brand-new
VK_EXT_descriptor_heap acceleration-structure path; should be reported to
NVIDIA. The traceRayEXT call is left active so the example stays a
faithful reproducer. Documented in both READMEs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-31 22:21:57 +00:00
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CustomShader custom shader webgpu 2026-05-18 05:39:17 +02:00
Decompression compression example 2026-05-12 00:27:55 +02:00
HelloDom webgpu support 2026-05-18 04:58:52 +02:00
HelloUI custom shader webgpu 2026-05-18 05:39:17 +02:00
HelloWindow crafter-build V2 2026-04-30 01:29:17 +02:00
InputSystem new input system 2026-05-12 00:24:48 +02:00
RTStress wip: uncommitted changes from claude run on issue #3 2026-05-31 16:28:38 +00:00
Sponza WebGPU RT: port Sponza to wavefront (shadow ray in SHADE) 2026-05-31 20:16:04 +00:00
VulkanTriangle docs(vulkan-rt): record native descriptor-heap AS read as a driver fault 2026-05-31 22:21:57 +00:00
README.md new input system 2026-05-12 00:24:48 +02:00

Examples

Each example is a self-contained crafter-build project that depends on the parent Crafter.Graphics via LocalProject. To build and run any of them:

cd examples/<name>
crafter-build -r

Index

HelloWindow

Minimum viable program: open a window, run the event loop. No Vulkan rendering. Useful as a smoke test for Device::Initialize + Window + the platform backend.

VulkanTriangle

Ray-traced single triangle through vkCmdTraceRaysKHR. Shows the full ray-tracing setup: DescriptorHeapVulkan with image and buffer slots, PipelineRTVulkan from raygen / miss / closesthit SPIR-V, BLAS via Mesh::Build, TLAS via RenderingElement3D::BuildTLAS, direct vkWriteResourceDescriptorsEXT for swapchain views, RTPass on window.passes. Smallest test of the bindless ray-tracing path.

HelloUI

Compute-shader UI demo using all three UI tiers:

  • Tier 3 components: DrawButton, DrawSlider, DrawProgressBar, composed via Rect::SubRect for resize-safe layout.
  • Tier 2 standard shaders: DispatchQuads for the background and components, DispatchCircles for a cursor-tracking dot, DispatchText for the button label (with the FontAtlas wired up to UIRenderer).
  • Tier 1 is available too — any custom ComputeShader registered on the same heap can be dispatched alongside the standard ones.

Hit-testing and animation are user code (see the EventListener subscriptions on window.onMouseMove / onMouseLeftClick); the library does not track widgets or focus.

Drop a TTF in this directory as font.ttf before running (the example loads it via Font("font.ttf")).

InputSystem

Guided tour of Crafter::Input: name actions ("Jump", "Move", "Fire", "Look", "Zoom"), bind them to keys / mouse / gamepad (with composite bindings for WASD-as-Vector2 and analog sticks), and consume them as events. Demonstrates:

  • The compile-time Key(CrafterKeys::Space) helper that folds to a per-platform raw scancode — bindings stay cross-platform-readable in source while runtime data stores raw codes only.
  • All four action types (Button, Axis1D, Vector2) with multiple bindings per action (any-of semantics).
  • Map::StartRebind — press R, then press any input to remap "Jump" at runtime. Captured input is filtered out for that frame.
  • BindingToString / BindingFromString round-trip — print the default bindings as the on-disk format.
  • Gamepad hot-plug events: plug a controller in mid-run and the bindings start firing immediately.

Console-driven (no UI rendering needed); focus the window and watch stdout.

CustomShader

Tier 1 demo: a user-authored compute shader (inverse-circle.comp.glsl) running alongside the shipped drawQuads. The custom shader inverts RGB under each item-circle — exactly the kind of effect attempt #2's closed shader couldn't express. Shows:

  • Defining your own item POD struct in C++ + matching std430 struct in GLSL.
  • #include "../../shaders/ui-shared.glsl" for the bindless heap declarations + UIDispatchHeader push-constant contract.
  • ComputeShader::Load for the .spv, UIRenderer::RegisterBuffer for your SSBO, FillHeader to populate the standard prefix, and UIRenderer::Dispatch to launch — the same pattern the standard shaders use under the hood.
  • The inter-dispatch SHADER_WRITE → SHADER_READ|WRITE barrier is inserted automatically, so the custom shader sees the colored stripes drawn by the prior DispatchQuads and reads/writes the swapchain image safely.